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Small Boat

Vincent Delecroix

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November 2021: an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK capsizes in the Channel, causing the deaths of 27 people on board. How and why did it happen? Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on the scene, all but two of the migrants had died. The narrator of Delecroix's fictional account of the events is the woman who took the calls. Accused of failing in her duty, she refuses to be held more responsible than others for this disaster. Why should she be more responsible than the sea, than the war, than the crises behind these tragedies?

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Publisher
Small Axes
Year
2025
ISBN-13
9788198604194
Genre
FictionCrime & Thriller
Topics
Migrant crisis and tragedyMoral responsibility and guiltBureaucratic failure

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